Commercial and institutional surveillance tools and systems, including their capabilities, societal implications, and debates around oversight and misuse.
The Winona Police Department is ending its license plate reader program to regain public trust after vandals destroyed the cameras and residents voiced strong opposition to the surveillance.
An Ohio grand jury's refusal to indict a man for destroying a Flock camera underscores a growing national movement against pervasive license plate surveillance.
Deflock Casa Grande advocates for strict legal safeguards and public oversight to prevent the city's invasive surveillance network from being used for unregulated tracking and personal abuse.
ICE is paying $125 million for access to Thomson Reuters' personal databases to investigate 'voter fraud' and monitor millions of people.
Larry Ellison argues that constant surveillance will enforce social order by eliminating personal privacy.
Palantir's 'Technological Republic' manifesto proposes a disturbing merger of Silicon Valley engineering and state military power, including a return to the draft.
Federal mobile apps function as invasive surveillance tools that collect biometrics and location data to feed an interconnected government tracking ecosystem.
A European petition demands an end to government contracts with the US surveillance giant Palantir to protect public data and human rights.
Juggalo face paint can defeat 2D facial recognition by obscuring facial landmarks, though it remains vulnerable to 3D depth-sensing technology.
MoD insiders warn that Palantir’s access to UK government data allows the US firm to infer state secrets and build a pervasive national profile, regardless of who technically 'owns' the data.
A Florida judge ruled red-light camera laws unconstitutional because they violate due process by requiring vehicle owners to prove they weren't driving.
DeFlock is a crowdsourced mapping project dedicated to identifying and tracking Automated License Plate Readers.
Anthropic is defying Department of War pressure to remove AI guardrails on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons, citing ethical concerns and technical unreliability.
GeoSpy’s SuperBolt upgrades photo geolocation from miles to meters, enabling rapid, precise, and scalable vehicle recovery.
An AI gun detector misread a Doritos bag as a weapon, triggering an armed police response and renewing concerns about AI surveillance in schools.
Massive Attack turned a concert into a live facial recognition display to confront audiences with the normalization of surveillance.
U.S. and global surveillance capabilities are expanding—often controversially and with mixed effectiveness—while privacy tools race to keep up.
